Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) 's Twitter Profile
Mathew Ingram

@mathewi

I write about tech and media from my kayak somewhere in Canada. Also @mathewi on Mastodon, BlueSky and Threads

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naming a bank after the place where Smaug killed everyone and stole the money is kinda weird x.com/CoinDesk/statu…

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These allegations are horrific. If this was an American prison it would violate the 8th Amendment. This is absolutely cruel and unusual punishment. Nobody should try to rationalize or justify this kind of treatment.

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When threatened to be unplugged, Anthropic’s AI model Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair, per FORTUNE.

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After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

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Going to put this on my resume: "A sluggard waker was a job undertaken by a parishioner. The sole task of the sluggard waker was to watch the congregation during the services and tap anyone who appeared to be falling asleep sharply on the head" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggard_…

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Have we just completely abandoned the idea that tariffing authority belongs to Congress? It's literally in the Constitution. What are we even doing here

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In this week's Torment Nexus newsletter, I argue that we should stop blaming AI for the stupid things that human beings use AI to do: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/we-shouldnt-bl…

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Trump weighed pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell for fear that she would spill secrets about his decade-long friendship with Epstein, according to Michael Wolff. trib.al/BPO5DG2

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The Scopes "Monkey Trial" started on this day 100 years ago. Clarence Darrow won, right? No. He lost and then lost on appeal — all four challenges rejected. The case was dismissed on a technicality, and the law it was fighting existed for another 40 years en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_tr…

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🚨Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz just toured ā€œAlligator Alcatrazā€ and came out shaking: ā€œIt’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.ā€ We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then

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We’re releasing the Epstein Files day one. There are no Epstein Files. Here’s video proof nothing happened. Ok we had to edit it. There are no Epstein Files. There are Epstein Files, but the Democrats made them. Why do you care so much about this Epstein guy? What are ā€œFilesā€?

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🚨Rep. Maxwell Frost after touring ā€œAlligator Alcatrazā€: ā€œThirty-two bodies crammed per cage, six cages per tent. People screaming ā€˜Help me, I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Drinking water pumped from the same toilet they’re forced to use. It’s filth, it’s cruelty, it’s America’s name on

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In this week’s Torment Nexus: What should we do when the facts don’t matter? How should we respond to a wave of anti-science and anti-intellectualism, or the weaponization of skepticism? torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/what-do-we-do-…

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In this week's edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about how the Google link economy is dying and it's not coming back — and what the future might hold for publishers and content creators torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/the-link-econo…